Commit a30427d9 authored by Jonathan Corbet's avatar Jonathan Corbet

Add a comment in chrdev_open()

I stared at this code for a while and almost deleted it before
understanding crept into my slow brain.  Hopefully this makes life easier
for the next person to happen on it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent f2b9857e
......@@ -373,6 +373,8 @@ static int chrdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
return -ENXIO;
new = container_of(kobj, struct cdev, kobj);
spin_lock(&cdev_lock);
/* Check i_cdev again in case somebody beat us to it while
we dropped the lock. */
p = inode->i_cdev;
if (!p) {
inode->i_cdev = p = new;
......
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